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My take-off point in this brief essay is the following comment from the introductory material that all the participants received for the conference on “Uncertainty and Surprise.” It reads:
Instead of viewing social systems as machines whose Newtonian-like dynamics are to be uncovered and then controlled, we now see social systems as selforganizing systems whose properties emerge from interactions between agents. (italics mine)
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Kelso, J.S. 7 The Complementary Nature of Coordination Dynamics: Toward a Science of the In-Between. In: McDaniel, R.R., Driebe, D.J. (eds) Uncertainty and Surprise in Complex Systems. Understanding Complex Systems. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/10948637_7
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